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Robert Spencer: The Ground Zero Mosque and Media Sleight of Hand

Dec 12, 2012 1:51 am By Robert Spencer

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In PJ Media today, I discuss how, with regard to the vaunted Ground Zero Mosque project, the mainstream media and the Islamic supremacist developers declared victory and got out, a la Vietnam.

The irony could not have been thicker: the New York Post
reported Sunday that one year after the notorious Park51 “community
center” opened “with great fanfare,” it was “now an empty space with no
community programs.” Park51, you may recall, is the official name of
what is more famously known as the Ground Zero mosque. The entire
controversy over the Ground Zero mosque is an illuminating example of
how the media manipulates public perceptions.

Now the central deception — that the Ground Zero mosque was never really a mosque at all “” has been fully revealed. The Post
continued: “What’s more, while the developers behind Park51 insisted
for two years that the project was more than a mosque, it now appears to
be just that. Dozens of worshipers gather at the site on Park Place
Friday for prayer services “” but that’s the only activity in the
building.”

This is the ignominious denouement of the institution that its
developer, Sharif El-Gamal, once boasted would soon be “the most famous
community center in the whole world.” El-Gamal wasn’t the only one
boasting: when Park51 officially opened last year, reporters from all
over the world contacted Pamela Geller and me, as the leaders of the
national opposition to the Ground Zero mosque, asking us for comment on
the “fact” that we had “lost,” that the “community center” was opening
despite our opposition.

But this was a case of a defeated side declaring victory and getting
out, a la Vietnam. As both Geller and I made repeatedly clear at the
height of the Ground Zero mosque controversy, we were well aware that
Muslims were gathering for prayers in the Burlington Coat Factory
building that had been extensively damaged in the September 11, 2001
attacks, and had no objection to that.

What we were objecting to was the planned sixteen-story mega-mosque that the less than solvent El-Gamal and his erstwhile partners, the unsavory and dishonest Islamic supremacists Faisal Abdul Rauf and Daisy Khan,
planned to build on that site after they tore down the Burlington Coat
Factory building, as that would have been a triumphal mosque built on
the site of a jihad victory, like the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple
Mount. Once Americans voiced their opposition in huge numbers to that
planned victory mosque, and we exposed the developers” Islamic supremacist ties and many shady financial dealings, the project was put on indefinite hold.

As Pamela Geller explained:

Rauf has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. “¦ Rauf’s book What’s Right with Islam
says on the copyright page that “this edition was made possible through
a joint effort of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
and the office of Interfaith and Community Alliance of the Islamic
Society of North America (ISNA). Funding for this project was provided
by IIIT.” Both IIIT and ISNA are Muslim Brotherhood fronts, and ISNA was
named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas
terror funding case.

Rauf refused to condemn Hamas until the public outcry became too
great for him to ignore. He was a prominent member of the Perdana
organization, which bankrolled the jihad flotilla sent against Israel
last year, on which the “peaceful” passengers were chanting a genocidal
and antisemitic Islamic jihad chant.

Also, Rauf has said that “the U.S. and the West must acknowledge the
harm they have done to Muslims before terrorism can end.” He has claimed
that “Western active involvement in shaping the internal affairs of
Islamic societies have contributed to the creation of terrorism done in
the name of Islam.” In other words, defending ourselves against jihad
terrorism just creates jihad terrorism, so we should stop defending
ourselves.

Rauf has carried his blame game even farther, claiming: “We tend to
forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its
hands than al Qaida has on its hands of innocent non Muslims.” He even
said on 60 Minutes shortly after 9/11 that Osama bin Laden was “made in the USA.”

The Arabic translation of Rauf’s book What’s Right with Islam is disturbingly titled A Call to Prayer from the World Trade Center Rubble: Islamic Dawa in the Heart of Post-9/11 America. This indicates that he planned for years to spread Islam and Sharia from the site of the 9/11 attacks.

There is more.

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